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Application area: Allmän industri
Livsmedelsindustri
General facts
Polyethylene terephthalate
Shortening: PET-P
Color: White
Coloring options: Limited
Common uses: Gears, bobbins, hoods, bearings, etc.
Benefits
Restrictions
Technical data
Benefits
- High stiffness and hardness.
- Abrasion resistant and good chemical resistance.
- Useful at elevated temperatures.
- Good dielectric properties that are maintained at high temperature and high moisture content.
- Low water absorption.
- Resistant to sun and UV radiation.
- Low friction
- Food approved.
Restrictions
- Restrictions
- Low impact resistance in criminal instructions.
- Charged electrostatically, which means that dust and grease particles stick more easily to the material.
- Tendency to skew (worse than PA, but better than PP).
- Hydrolyte sensitive.
- Large shape shrinkage if not fiberglass-filled.